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LOL. Nice try, Yazhol.
Each version of the dtivo os has a different version of boot299.btl. So if you installed v2.5.2 over v2.5 you will see a slightly different boot299.btl and a bunch of other file differences also.

dracoo

Originally posted by Yazhol I wasn't "trying" anything, just asking a question since I alread had replaced the btl file.

whenever the tivo software gets upgraded, the new software is put on the unused system partition. because of that, any old hacks need to be re-applied. tivolater applies some hacks for you, but any special files you replaces (such as a btl file) will need to be replaced after the upgrade. as was stated, the btls are different for each software version we have seen so far

I am trying to download this now.
Does this upgrade the prom on the tivo?
If I did a 'dd' on my 2.5.0 drive to a new drive and applied the 3.1 on the new drive would I be able to go back to the 2.5 drive?
Or is the Prom updated to not allow me to go backwards?

No prom update is done if your prom was previously flashed with the hacked prom image as is done with v25xtreme. And the hacked prom flash is only done if you request it and it needs to be done. So you can clone your drive to a new drive, install the upgrade and then if you don't like the upgrade you can use your original drive.

confused???

I'm a little confused.

I currently have extreme 2.5 running with kravens update. If I upgrade to the 3.1 version of extreme, will I still need the tier for the PVR functionality or will my extreme image carry me through without the tier because of the prom flash that happened with extreme 2.5?

Also, I was wondering if someone could package just the files needed for the upgrade for those of us going over bash. Hopefully that will be a lot smaller than the 50 meg iso.